Date 22.01.2026

Time HKT 12:00pm

Location G/F Atrium, LSK Architecture Building, CUHK

Speaker Jiang Ying


Place and Construction - Locality Reconstruction and Buildable Strategies in a Compressed Urbanization Context


This lecture demonstrates how architectural practice reconnects material form and everyday life in China’s rapid urbanization. Through four projects—an integrated arts‑and‑sports center, a high‑density art academy with a suspended athletic field, a time‑focused church retrofit, and outdoor installations that reinterpret local tradition and contemporary art—the talk outlines strategies for reconstructing locality and ensuring buildability, arguing that layered, tactile, and constructible systems can translate social life into resilient, inhabitable form.

About the speaker

Ying Jiang (b. 1976, Nanning) is Principal Architect and co‑founder of O‑office Architects (est. 2007). She earned D.P.L.G. Architect in France in 2004 after receiving the President Chirac Scholarship in 2001. O‑office’s regionally rooted practice explores the diversity and hybridity of traditions in the Pearl River Delta, attracting international academic attention. Major recognitions include nomination of RIBA International Prize 2024, the RIBA International Award for Excellence (2021), ARCASIA Golden Awards (2020, 2022), the Architecture Prize of the 1st City for Humanity (2020), AR’s New into Old (2017, Highly Commended), and a BSI Swiss Architectural Award nomination (2016).

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2025-2026
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